Friday, April 15, 2011

Assange Continues His Interview With The Hindu : Video

By Jerry Smith Apr 15 2011
assangewatch.blogspot.com

On April 8th, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sat down with The Hindu’s Editor-in-Chief, N. Ram and the newspaper’s U.K. Correspondent, Hasan Suroor at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, where Assange is staying while under house arrest and fighting extradition to Sweden.

Assange will continue to fight being extradited to Sweden at a two day hearing at the High Court in London on July 12 and 13. He has been fighting extradition to Sweden where he has not been charged with anything but is wanted for questioning by the Swedish police about accusations of rape and sexual molestation made against him by Sofia Wilen and Anna Ardin. Assange denies these allegations and says he had consensual sex with the two women.

Assange and his lawyers fear that if he is extradited to Sweden he may then be extradited to the United States, where he could face torture, confinement at Guantanamo Bay, both, or even the death penalty.

Assange has angered the United States with the publishing of leaked embarrassing diplomatic cables, the classified documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the 'Collateral Murder' video.